eDieting

Here I am at a poetry reading circa 2002:

Here I am circa now at a peace/poverty march/rally:

Someone recently asked me to share the ‘secret’ to my weight loss.

I first joined eDiets.com in 2000. My weight had ballooned to almost 300 pounds. I lost 80 pounds with eDiets over the span of two years, and then my eating habits were significantly changed, enabling me to continue losing weight off the plan. I finally got down to ‘normal’ weight in 2005.

I’m now 5 pounds overweight, but I’d like to be super trim for once in my adult life. My goal is to lose 25 to 35 pounds.

Deciding what to eat has become baffling lately. I can’t think past a couple meals in a grocery store, which means I have to go shopping a couple times a week. I’m prone to eating out because it’s such an ordeal to make decisions. It’s distressing and expensive.

Last Tuesday I signed up for eDiets.com again. I’m letting the online meal planner decide everything. It creates a weekly meal plan complete with recipes and shopping list. It’s customizable. If I don’t like a meal, I can select a new one from a list of a couple hundred recipes.

There are a dozen or so ‘types’ of diets on eDiets such as low carb, high fiber, glycemic diets, and more. I’m using the basic eDiets plan. It’s low fat and fills me up on vegetables.

I credit eDiets with changing my lifestyle by teaching me how to cook and eat more healthfully. I’ve lost 150 pounds, and kept it off for four years. I can’t recommend eDiets enough.

Lady